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Although Anselm once famously (and I think truthfully) described the Christian faith as a “faith seeking understanding,” it seems to me that it can also be plausibly described, at least for some persons, as a “faith seeking belief.

I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.

My whole history of being an actor is unusual and slightly disgraceful because it should be something you burn to do.

It is through imagination that we transcend understanding and travel into the world of possibilities.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I'm pretty sure we both know what we're doing.

I thought that the 40s was a tough decade, because it's when you finally figure out that you're not immortal, when you really start seeing that certain options are closed to you forever: You're not going to be a brain surgeon; you're not going to be a ballerina.

I think life is about learning to embrace uncertainty.

At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.

I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.

I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.

A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth.

I made a vow that I wouldn't be tempted by what could happen to me if I went to Europe. I thought, 'You could be absorbed in it - it's so seductive, you might lose your own search for identity.' Then, when I did finally go to Europe, I was able to resist it because I had established my own identity.

I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty.

To create greater convergence, we need more intergration.

I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.

Personally, I would counsel any woman who asked, in my family, to do her best to carry the child full term, and I'd try to help. But I do believe the government should not prohibit a woman from making that decision.

Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.

I'm a puzzle doer.